Isabel, Duchess of Braganza

Full name
	Isabel Inês

Isabel
Isabel
	Duchess of Braganza (more...)
Born	22 November 1966; Lisbon, Portuguese Republic
Spouse	Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (m. 1995)
Issue; details...	Afonso, Prince of Beira; Infanta Maria Francisca, Duchess of Coimbra; Infante Dinis, Duke of Porto
Full name
	Isabel Inês
House	Braganza (by marriage)
Father	Jorge de Herédia
Mother	Raquel Leonor Pinheiro Curvello
Religion	Roman Catholic

Dona Isabel, Duchess of Braganza (née Isabel Inês Castro Curvello de Herédia; born 22 November 1966), is a Portuguese businesswoman who married Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, the current pretender to the defunct Portuguese throne.

Born to descendants of Portuguese nobility, Castro Curvello de Heredia worked as an assets manager prior to her marriage. Since marrying Duarte Pio, Isabel has left the professional world, devoted her attention to her family, and become patron to several Portuguese charities and non-profit foundations. She and her husband have had three children together, thus securing the continuation of the House of Braganza.

Early life

Isabel Inês Castro Curvello de Herédia was born on 22 November 1966, in Lisbon, to Dom Jorge de Heredia, an architect, and Dona Raquel Leonor Pinheiro de Castro Curvello, his wife. Since birth, she was entitled to the honorific styling of Dona (Lady), being a descendant in the male lineage of Francisco Correia de Herédia, 1st Viscount of Ribeira Brava, of the Portuguese nobility, and a famed republican, who was involved in the failed republican uprising of 28 January 1908.

Castro Curvelo de Heredia lived between metropolitan Portugal and Portuguese Angola until 1975, when Angola was granted independence. Her family subsequently moved to São Paulo, Brazil. There, she studied at the Colégio São Luís, a Jesuit-run institution. In 1990, she obtained a degree in business administration from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas and returned to Portugal to a job in BMF — Sociedade de Gestão de Patrimónios, S.A. She specialized as an asset manager.

Personal life

On 13 May 1995 she married Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, at Jerónimos Monastery. Present at the ceremony were representatives of various European royal and noble houses: Prince Phillippe, Duke of Brabant, Prince Henri, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria, among others. The principal Portuguese political figures, including the President of the Republic Mário Soares, Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva, and President of the Assembly António Barbosa de Melo, were also present.

Following her marriage and the birth of her first child, Afonso, Isabel resigned from her professional life and devoted herself to the management of her family and the patronage of various causes.

Honours

Dynastic honours

9th Grand Mistress of the Order of Saint Isabel^[1]^[2]^[3] (House of Braganza)
Dame Grand Cross of Justice of the Castroan-Two Sicilian Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George^[4] (Castroan Royal Family of Two Sicilies)
Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Danilo I (Montenegrin Royal Family)

Foreign honours^[5]

Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre^[6] (Holy See)
Dame Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 3rd First Class^[7] (Sovereign Military Order of Malta)

Genealogy

Ancestry

Ancestors of Isabel, Duchess of Braganza

16. Francisco Correia de Herédia, 1st Viscount of Ribeira Brava

8. D. Sebastião Sancho Gil de Borja de Macedo Meneses e Herédia

17. D. Joana Gil de Borja de Macedo e Meneses

4. D. Sebastiao de Freitas Branco de Herédia

18. Luis de Freitas Branco

9. Maria da Assumpção Garcia de Freitas Branco

19. Ana Gertrudes Garcia de Freitas

2. D. Jorge de Herédia

20. Firmino Augusto Lopes Brotas Cardoso

10. José de Almedia Brotas Cardoso

21. Maria da Glória Ferreira de Almeida

5. Maria Isabel da Glória Santiago de Sousa Botelho Brotas Cardoso

22. Antonio Eduardo de Sousa Botelho Correia Guedes do Amaral de Frias Sarmento

11. Maria da Conceição Santiago de Sousa Botelho Correia Guedes do Amaral

23. Maria Adriana Santiago Gouveia de Mattos

1. D. Isabel Inés de Castro Curvello de Herédia

24. Mateus António Curvello

12. Joâo Francisco Curvello

25. Raquel da Pena Fonseca

6. Leonel de Castro Curvello

26. José de Sampaio Castro

13. Leonor Adelaide Monteiro de Castro

27. Leonor Monteiro

3. Raquel Leonor Pinheiro de Castro Curvello

28. Manuel António Pinheiro

14. Joaquim Manuel Fernandes Carrilho Pinheiro

29. Beatriz de Jesus Fernandes Carrilho

7. Beatriz da Graça Fernandes Pinheiro

30. José Marques Bucho

15. Joana de Simas Madeira Bucho

31. Maximiana Luisa de Simas Madeira
(mistress of D. Carlos Tasso de Lixa-Parma,
illegitimate son of Carlo III of Parma and Ctess Emma Guadagni)^[8]

Issue

Name	Birth	Notes
By Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (22 November 1966 – present; married 13 May 1995)
Afonso, Prince of Beira	25 March 1996	16th Prince of Beira, 18th Duke of Barcelos; 1st in line of succession
Infanta Maria Francisca, Duchess of Coimbra	3 March 1997	Infanta of Portugal; 3rd in line of succession
Infante Dinis, Duke of Porto	25 November 1999	4th Duke of Porto, Infante of Portugal; 2nd in line of succession

References

↑ Ideias, Terra das. "Real Ordem de Santa Isabel". www.rainhasantaisabel.org (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-07-13.
↑ http://www.realcasadiborbone.it/wp-content/uploads/4.S.A.R._la_Duchessa_di_Castro_dopo_aver_ricevuto_lOrdine_di_Santa_Isabel_con_le-_figlie_le_LL.AA_.RR_._Maria_Carolina_Duchessa_di_Palermo-e_Maria_Chiara_Duchessa_di_Capri_e_le_LL.AA_.RR_._il_Principe_di_Beira_e_il_Duca_di_Porto.jpg
↑ "Principesa Moștenitoare Margareta a primit Marea Cruce a Ordinului Sfânta Isabel a Portugaliei | Familia Regală a României / Royal Family of Romania". www.romaniaregala.ro. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
↑ "Investiture ceremonies between Constantinian Order and Royal Order of Saint Isabel - Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George". Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George. 2014-07-09. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
↑ "Portugal". Almanach de Gotha (187th ed.). 2004. p. 286.
↑ "DEZANOVE ANOS DE CASAMENTO DOS DUQUES DE BRAGANÇA". realfamiliaportuguesa.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
↑ "O FUTURO "REI DE PORTUGAL", COMO É DESIGNADO PELOS CAVALEIROS, FOI INVESTIDO PELA ORDEM DE MALTA". realfamiliaportuguesa.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
↑ Carlo III of Bourbon, Duke of Parma and Emma Guadagni. The Guadagni Family Historical Archives.

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[1] Ideias, Terra das. "Real Ordem de Santa Isabel". www.rainhasantaisabel.org (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-07-13.

[2] ttp://www.realcasadiborbone.it/wp-content/uploads/4.S.A.R._la_Duchessa_di_Castro_dopo_aver_ricevuto_lOrdine_di_Santa_Isabel_con_le-_figlie_le_LL.AA_.RR_._Maria_Carolina_Duchessa_di_Palermo-e_Maria_Chiara_Duchessa_di_Capri_e_le_LL.AA_.RR_._il_Principe_di_Beira_e_il_Duca_di_Porto.jpg

[3] "Principesa Moștenitoare Margareta a primit Marea Cruce a Ordinului Sfânta Isabel a Portugaliei | Familia Regală a României / Royal Family of Romania". www.romaniaregala.ro. Retrieved 2017-07-13.

[4] "Investiture ceremonies between Constantinian Order and Royal Order of Saint Isabel - Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George". Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George. 2014-07-09. Retrieved 2017-07-13.

[5] "Portugal". Almanach de Gotha (187th ed.). 2004. p. 286.

[6] "DEZANOVE ANOS DE CASAMENTO DOS DUQUES DE BRAGANÇA". realfamiliaportuguesa.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-13.

[7] "O FUTURO "REI DE PORTUGAL", COMO É DESIGNADO PELOS CAVALEIROS, FOI INVESTIDO PELA ORDEM DE MALTA". realfamiliaportuguesa.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-13.

[8] Carlo III of Bourbon, Duke of Parma and Emma Guadagni. The Guadagni Family Historical Archives.